Thursday, November 15, 2012

Today marks the book launch of Small Portions by Dieter Moitzi. “Small
Portions” is a story that comes in… small portions. In precisely 111
little parts – AND a recipe. To explore the many facets of modern life,
the author has chosen the literary form of vignettes, those short
impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give a trenchant
impression about a character, idea, setting, object.

Dieter Moitzi
tells his own story in poignant scenes that vary from a snapshot of his
christening in the early 70s to his father’s death in a skiing accident
at the beginning of the 2000s. It’s small things he talks about, those
many small things that compose a life – his life. He recalls the painful
process of coming out of the closet, relates in funny detail the first
encounters and love stories of his happy-go-lucky twenties, delves with
analytical distance into aspects and turning points of two long-time
relationships. He takes you by the hand and guides you through the
streets of Paris, the city he lives in. He writes about food and the
internet and his travel experiences in Greece, Morocco, Vienna, Tunisia,
London…

In just so many carefully chosen words, sometimes poetic,
sometimes blunt, but always with a good deal of wry and self-deprecating
humour, the author succeeds in creating little universes with each
story. Each one stands alone, yet when you link them together, another
story takes shape. The story of a life, the sketch of a person, the
mirror of a time. Our time.

I met Dieter Moitzi in the Blogesphere, where he has been a frequent visitor to my blog. Born in
1972 in Austria, Dieter Moitzi moved to Paris, France, in the early
1990s. He is working as a graphic designer and writing in his spare
time, mainly in English. He loves to share his passion for words, which
is the reason why he has launched a literature blog in 2010. Ever since,
he has published a collection of poems (“and somewhere under”) as well
as a collection of short stories (“Miss Otis regrets”), both available
on amazon. Moreover, his poetry has been published in the “Vine Leaves
Literary Journal” in 2012. He is currently working on two novels that he
hopes to publish in 2013. Congrats to Dieter on his new book! You may visit him at http://dietermoitzi.blogspot.com/